Java passing value

Question

I have three programs,

first does a selenium test

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import junit.framework.*;

public class MyTest extends SeleneseTestCase {

int flag_eco;

public void setUp() throws Exception {
    setUp("http://www.mysite.com/", "*iexplore");
}
public void testMyTest() throws Exception {
    selenium.open("/pages/static/homepage_logout.html");
    selenium.type("username", "myuser");
    selenium.type("password", "password");
    selenium.click("//input[@value='LOGIN']");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    selenium.click("Confirm");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    selenium.click("link=Applications");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    selenium.click("link=Journey");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    selenium.click("link=Launch Application (MUST BE LOGGED IN)");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    if((selenium.isTextPresent("Please enter one of the following:")))
    {
        System.out.println("Journey Working Fine");
        flag_test= 0;
    }
    else
    {
        System.out.println("Journey Failed");
        flag_test = 1;
    }
    selenium.selectFrame("topmenu");
    selenium.click("link=Home");
}
public static Test suite() {
//method added
return new TestSuite(MyTest.class);
}
public void tearDown(){
//Added . Will be called when the test will complete
selenium.stop();
}

}

then a sendmail gettin the values from the selenium test

      import java.util.*;


         public class SendMail
         {
         public void send()
         {


        MyTest Test = new MyTest();
        if (Test.flag_test==1)
          {
            System.out.println("Journey Failed");
        }
        else if(Test.flag_test==0)
          {
            System.out.println("Journey Working Fine");
          }

} }

main class calling both

        import java.io.*;
     import javax.servlet.*;

 public class Test 
   {
public static void main(String args[]) 
{


    MyTest tes = new MyTest();
            junit.textui.TestRunner.run(tes.suite());

    SendMail se = new SendMail();
    se.send();

}
   }

how do i pass the flag value from MyTest to SendMail

Answer 1

• The flag should be public static (I don't see it defined in the code you provided) - i.e.

  public class MyTest {
       public static int flag;
       // the rest of the code
  }
  

• in send() you can refer to it with MyTest.flag_test

Note, that this is not a good way of passing data, but in your case there isn't anything better.

I think you are doing something that shouldn't be done at all. Here's what I propose:

• move the code that is changing the flag outside the test
• include it in the test, in the appropriate place (as if it is there)
• include it in SendMail as well.

Thus you won't need to invoke the test in order to obtain a flag.

Answer 2

Three ways of achieving this 1. Pass the test as parameter to SendMail (already mentioned) 2. Write a listener on test, (Observable pattern/ PropertyChangeSupport in java) and hook it up. (Best IMO) 3. Write to a Static object which acts as white board and read from there. ( a poor man's message queue)